Got a PSP as a gift? Now read free e-books on it, including classics by Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Jane Austen, Scott Fitzgerald and other greats
With the right software, your new PSP can read many thousands of e-books that are in the public domain or are free Creative Commons titles.
Among the options is the free PSP ebook creator, which converts .txt on your PC to images that the PSP can display.
It’s said to work great with Project Gutenberg books, and that means you’ll be able to enjoy public domain works by Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald and other writers. Among the features of PSP ebook creator are:
- “Landscape/ Portrait page formats
- “Background images
- “Smart formatting (efficiently fits text to PSP screen dimensions)
- “User defined fonts, ink color and page color
- “Navigation bar (including page numbers and custom title)
- “JPG compression settings
- “PSP display window
- “1:1 page previewing
- “Chapter breaks”
If you own a PSP, try out ebook creator and share your impressions here. I’ll also welcome other suggestions on PSP-related reading software.
Even without special software like PSP ebook creator, you can enjoy the PSP section of Manybooks.net.
Yet another option would be to take advantage of your PSP’s Web browser’s built-in features, through which you can enjoy books in HTML and .txt files. Drugster.com even tells how you can pick up TXT from PDF files that allow this. In addition, keep in mind such programs as PDFtoHTML.
January 1st, 2008 at 1:54 pm
If the PSP had a good ebook reader, I would buy it. I’m not talking about all of this crazy pre-conversion. It would be nice be be able to just browse the web on the PSP, download books and start reading them.
It also be nice if the PSP could read .pdf’s, seeing as I have many papers in that format from school.
January 2nd, 2008 at 3:57 am
There are many of these ‘kind’ of devices with reasonable screens, reasonable memory, and reasonable computational ability (PSP, ‘Media Palyer’, cell phones, Nintendo DS). Many of them even have web-browsing capability, for example for Nintendo DS you can browse the web via a wifi hotspot for example.
I don’t really understand (I really don’t understand) why they don’t sell / include eReader programs for them. Why is that?
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:28 am
I use my Sony PSP to read eBooks all the time. The built-in Web browser makes it easy to read books in HTML or TXT format. In fact, I wrote a blog post about this back in February of 2006 and it’s one of the most popular posts on my blog. Here’s the link:
http://pandora.tcs.tulane.edu/blogs/clay/index.cfm/2006/2/19/Reading-eBooks-on-Your-PSP
There’s no need to convert eBooks into images. You’ll do much better using the browser to read in text formats. If you do that instead of using images, it’s also easy to increase the text size for more comfortable reading.
January 3rd, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Thanks Clay, that’s the kind of information I was looking for.